You can revoke special permissions that aren't needed.

You checked your permissions. You may have missed half of them.

Not a battery problem, just forgotten permissions piling up.

Downloading apps in APK format or even from Google Play carries risks, including potential malware infections. For Android users, the threat of malicious software is a more frequent concern than it is ...

Android apps really do use those permissions they ask for to access users’ personal information: one online store records a phone’s location up to 10 times a minute, French researchers have found. The ...

A team of academic researchers has uncovered a new Android security exploit that raises a lot of questions about the platform’s permission system. The technique, named TapTrap, uses user interface ...

Malware targeting Android devices has increased, often exploiting permissions that users unknowingly grant. While Android's open nature makes it a target, you can protect your device by carefully ...

If you've got Android, you know it shows you a list of permissions an app wants you to accept during installation -- and often, it seems like the app wants permission to do an awful lot of things. Pew ...